ChainCatcher news, U.S. stock market opens, Dow Jones up 0.15%, S&P 500 up 0.04%, Nasdaq down 0.05%. Shopify (SHOP.N) surged 20%, with third-quarter revenue increasing by 26% year-on-year. Bitcoin rose and then fell back, cryptocurrency concept stocks broadly declined, Riot Blockchain (RIOT.O) dropped over 6%, Coinbase (COIN.O) fell more than 4%, MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) decreased nearly 2%.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 payment platform Helio announced that it will take over the operation of the Solana Pay plugin on Shopify and plans to further enhance the functionality of Solana Pay through new features, thereby improving the digital currency payment experience on Shopify.It is reported that Helio is a Web3 payment platform. Through Helio, merchants, dApps, and creators can securely and conveniently accept decentralized crypto payments on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, and receive payments directly from customers.

ChainCatcher news, Worldcoin released the latest blog stating that with the launch of its World ID 2.0 and upgrade suite (including the World ID app and levels), Worldcoin provides retailers with a powerful new way to prevent fraud and conduct promotions aimed at fairly benefiting customers. On December 13, Worldcoin temporarily opened its Shopify store, where "device-verified" IDs could purchase Worldcoin merchandise baseball caps, while IDs verified through Orb would be eligible to purchase merchandise sweatshirts, the first batch of which sold out within 12 hours, and all items were officially sold out within 40 hours. A total of over 2,000 users from 45 countries across 6 continents placed orders in the store.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Solana Labs' decentralized payment protocol Solana Pay has integrated its plugin with Shopify, allowing users on its platform to make USDC payments.

ChainCatcher news, Shopify has recently expanded its NFT business, enabling millions of merchants to start designing, minting, and selling Avalanche NFTs.Merchants can use the Venly Shopify app to sell NFTs with "minimal technical knowledge," and the NFTs created will "automatically convert to products" and be displayed and sold in their storefronts. Additionally, buyers do not need to have a crypto wallet; instead, they will receive an email containing a link to the newly created blockchain wallet. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Twitter data, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke has canceled his focus on Solana.It is reported that Shopify previously announced the launch of NFT features, allowing vendors to mint custom digital collectibles on popular blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Flow, and list them for sale in online stores. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 communication protocol WalletConnect has completed a $12.5 million financing round, led by Shopify, with participation from Coinbase, Consensys, Circle, Polygon, Uniswap Labs Ventures, HashKey, and Foresight Ventures. The funds will be used to build a Web3 communication network.Previously reported, WalletConnect completed a $11 million Series A financing round in March this year, led by Union Square Ventures and 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Semantic Ventures, and others. (Source link)

Chain Catcher news, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has purchased nearly $3 million in Coinbase stock over the past two months. It is reported that Lütke became a member of the Coinbase board in February last year, and since August 11 of this year, he has been spending an average of about $369,000 per week to buy COIN stock. (Source link)